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Alibaba Cloud vs Salad

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What's good about...

Alibaba Cloud logo Alibaba Cloud

  • Strong presence in Asia and over 3,000 points of presence (POPs) around the world
  • Extensive range of managed services and server configurations
  • Offers a solid range of GPU servers

Salad logo Salad

  • 60,000+ daily active GPUs across 190+ countries
  • Consumer cards from GTX 1050 Ti to RTX 5090
  • Four priority levels trade interruption risk against cost
  • SOC 2 Type I compliant, containers isolated by hypervisor
  • No charge while your container downloads and starts

Price comparison

How do Alibaba Cloud's prices compare against Salad?

VM Small

Alibaba Cloud Alibaba Cloud
$15.21 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (ecs.xn4.small)
Salad Salad
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VM Medium

Alibaba Cloud Alibaba Cloud
$89.79 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM (ecs.c7.xlarge)
Salad Salad
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VM Large

Alibaba Cloud Alibaba Cloud
$170.49 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (ecs.c7.2xlarge)
Salad Salad
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Block Storage

Alibaba Cloud Alibaba Cloud
$11.20 /mo 100 GB (Enhanced SSD PL0)
Salad Salad
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Object Storage

Alibaba Cloud Alibaba Cloud
$43.84 /mo 1 TB, 250 GB reads, 100 GB writes
Salad Salad
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Load Balancer

Alibaba Cloud Alibaba Cloud
$16.56 /mo Small I (slb.s1.small)
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Managed PostgreSQL

Alibaba Cloud Alibaba Cloud
$114.92 /mo 2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (general-purpose)
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Managed Redis®*

Alibaba Cloud Alibaba Cloud
$43.09 /mo 1 GB Performance-enhanced (HA)
Salad Salad
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Free egress allowance

Alibaba Cloud Alibaba Cloud
10 GB / mo
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1 TB of egress beyond allowance

Alibaba Cloud Alibaba Cloud
$74.00 $0.074 / GB
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Salad logo Salad Pricing Details

Salad bills per second while an instance runs, and charges nothing while a container group allocates or pulls its image.

GPU container groups are priced per GPU per hour at one of four priority levels, vCPU and RAM included. CPU-only groups bill per vCPU and per GB. Credits are prepaid, with volume discounts of 2-10%.

GPU Fleet Overview

Billing Options

Alibaba Cloud Alibaba Cloud
On-DemandReserved (12mo)
Salad Salad
On-DemandSpot

Available Models

Alibaba Cloud offers 4 GPU models, while Salad offers 35.

Alibaba Cloud Alibaba Cloud
V100(14) T4(12) A10(26) P100(12)
Salad Salad
RTX 5090(2) RTX 4090(2) A5000(2) RTX 3090(2) RTX 4080(2) RTX 5080(2) RTX 4060(2) RTX 3060(4) RTX 3060 Ti(2) RTX 3070(2)
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Heads up: A provider's own page may quote a different figure, for example on tax, region or a promotion. A monthly-only plan shows a derived hourly rate. Plan figures take each provider's closest match to a common setup. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

Which services do they offer

Here are some managed services that Alibaba Cloud and Salad offer:

Service Alibaba Cloud Salad
Block Storage
Content Delivery Network (CDN)
Container Registry
GPU-powered Servers
Load Balancer
Managed Containers
Managed Kubernetes
Managed MySQL
Managed PostgreSQL
Managed Redis®*
Object Storage
Serverless Cron Jobs
Serverless Functions
Static Sites

Company details

Website
Alibaba Cloud Alibaba Cloud
www.alibabacloud.com
Salad Salad
salad.com
Headquarters
Alibaba Cloud Alibaba Cloud
Singapore SG flag
Salad Salad
United States of America US flag
Founded
Alibaba Cloud Alibaba Cloud
2009
Salad Salad
2018
Data Center Locations
Alibaba Cloud Alibaba Cloud
30
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Example Customers
Alibaba Cloud Alibaba Cloud
Taobao, Henkel, Hang Seng Bank, Tiger Brokers
Salad Salad
Discord, Stability AI, Blend, undetectable.ai, Civitai

Alternatives to consider

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Our data for Alibaba Cloud was last updated on Sept. 11, 2026, and for Salad on Sept. 11, 2026.